KLA10020 DoS vulnerability in Winamp

2014-04-1600:00:00

Kaspersky Lab

threats.kaspersky.com

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.177

Percentile

96.2%

JSON

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in Winamp. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited from the network at a point related to Skin packages via a specially designed package.

Original advisories

NVD

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

Winamp

CVE list

CVE-2013-4694 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Winamp

Impacts

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.